Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-19

| heat. A STAR reporter was told at the Signal
Office to-day that we may look for slightly cooler
weather, with occasional storms, for the next
| twenty-lour hours, to be followed by stationary
| temperature. There is nothing, however. e. war
| rant a continuance OF cooler weather, and 1t will
sSoas It not to nsS Up
as intense as that OF the past week A cloudy area
Is making its way down from the Northwest and
II II II reaches us viii have tendency to mitigate
| the herceneSS OF the suns rays.
| DEATHS FROM THE HEAT.
Mr.. Mark Cunningham, liquor dealer at 1887 7th
street, spent Sunday last at Fortress Monroe. and
while there was sunstruck. He partially recov-
cred and returned to the city yesterday morning.
In the afternoon he became sick again when at his
home, 106 street, and DIR. NaylOr attended him. He
died about 80 O'Clock from the effects OF the heat.
| MI. cunningham was formerly OF the firm OF Cum
bingham Daily, aged about thirty five years, and
leaves a wife and all infant child. Hisfuneral will
! take place tomorrow
| Luther Poe, who lived on 9TH street, between
and streets southwest, while at work in front
or his residence yesterday about O'Clock, was
| sunStruck and lived only forty minutes.
Lucius Leech, a carpenter, who lived at the cor
ner of 9th and Boundary streets, was overcome by
| the heat at the intersection OF New Jersey and
| Virginia avenues southwest yesterday afternoon,
and died in about half an hour,i the Police ambu-
lance ON his way to the hospital.
| Francis Mckernan, OF Scranton, Pa, who was
| staying at the Columbia Hotel, was overcome by
| the heat on the steamer City or Alexandria, and
| died soon after reaching the wharf
/ OTHER CASES OF SUNSTROKE.
Jno. Wesley, while at work in the coal yard cor
ner OF 1st and streets northeast, was overcome
by the heat about O'Clock p. m. yesterday and
was taken to his home, 513 L street northeast in
| the patrol wagon.
| Jno. Blackburn, a colored waiter at Willard's
Hotel, was overcome by the heat while at work
home, on Sd street southwest.
| James DE Neal, boy sixteen years old, living at
the corner OF 9Th and Boundary streets, was over
| streets yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the
nrst precinct station, and was attended by DR..
s1isientiy to be removed to Ss aome aea feco'erea
| W. h. Baker. clerk In the Pension ONCE. was
Frustrated his desk yesterday, and was taken to
his home, 729 9th street southeast
A young woman, name unknown, was sunstruck
at the 9Th street wharf while going Oh board the
steamer Lady OF the Lake yesterday. She re-
and left at O'Clock for Norfolk.
THE COOL WAVE SAVES MANY LIVES
DR.. TOwnshend, the health officer, said to STAR
reporter to-day that the cool wave that came to-
day probably save great many lives. He thought
| that IL the weather had continued to-day like
yesterday that there would have been a score or
| more OF fatal cases OF sunStroke or proStratiOn.
The mortality among infants during the past two
or three days, he said, had been appalling. This
sudden and grateful change in the temperature
was more potent In the cases OF sick children
| than any amount OF medicine.
| DEATHS FROM THE HEAT In OTHER CITIES.
| The record OF the results OF yesterdays hot
| weather is a sad one. In Chicago, although the
cool wave had arrived and the mercury only
ranged between SO and 80 degrees, the mortality
was very great, including 263 babies less than a
from 100 to 104 degrees and there were % pros
| tratiOns and deaths. PtttSburg showed "a de-
IN RcSmoud an ahs meTcnsS aS
| ranged between 100 and 1O6. There were six
deaths from the heat Other Virginia cities show
| high altitude OF the mercury. Petersburg, 100;
Winchester, 1Oo-lO3: Charlottesville, 9S; Lynch
burg, lo6: Augusta, Ca, recorded lO4 degrees
and Baltimore 1O2 With % cases OF prOStratiOn,
| hoinV Charleston &
| and Raleigh, N. c., 1O4 degrees. AT Jacksonville,
Fla, the thermometer reached 100 degrees for the
| afternoon and during the night were general
| throughout the country, and the backbone OF the
hot spell may be considered broken.
Horses i'm Hot Weather.
WHAT TO DO FOR ANIMALS OVERCOME BIZ THE HEAT.
.sNo, our horses did not suffer as much as first
thought they would" said Mr.. w. T. Strong, vete-
| rinary surgeon Of the washington and Georgetown
RaIIroad Co. to STAR reporter this morning
four OF which recovered, but the fifth died before
| aid could be had"
"What do you do for horses overcome by heat?"
81 have given the following prescription. with
good e1sc M IN many sid 81 MI Strong
| belladOnna, fifteen to twenty drops OF aconite,
mixed in quart Of ale or beer. Before this is
given apply chopped ice to the base OF the horses
brain, and also sponge the head with ice water"
Two DIVORCES GRANrED-Chief Justice Bingham
| to-day made decree OF divorce In the case OF
Alice Marie Miller against Thomas Fred Miller.
charged that he treated her with cruelty. The
decree gives her the right to resume her maiden
name OF T. Handley Judge Merrick today made .d,st
Annie c. Lambert. They were married August
%, 1878, at Staunton, Va, and they lived together
till May, 1885, when she suggested that she be
sent to convent In Canada, and he furnished the
means and subsequently she deserted his children
In Cleveland, Ohio, whefe sne Is no" an lnma1e OF
a house OF 1ll-fame.
RoBBER1Es REpoRrEp.-Richard j. Scissor, No.
1910 9th northwest, reports stolen from his
| room chinch1rla overcoat valued at $S.-H. +.
| wilkins, II and Boundary streets northeast, re-
and s21 stolen.-David Reidy, No 22o street
northwest, reports the larceny OF pair OF lady's
valued at snE Roofs s reports the
Duryee, No. 1908 street northwest, reports that
his house was entered yesterday and SIP stolen.
reports stolen S39.-Wm. G. Henderson, No. 92S
French street northwest, reports that his house
was entered Saturday and robbed OF jeweiry and
other articles valued at about $2OO.-F. j. Ham
tlton, No. 2O24 14Gh street northwest, reports
stolen from the pocket OF his vest hanging in his
store, gold watch worth $50.
CoNrRsrrSa THE wlL-Yesterday caveat was
filed to the will OF the late Mary A. L Brown in
the name of W. r., n. v. B., and W. F. Brown, the
two former sons, and the latter grandson OF the
ornins Tne eames @ her son George as
and directs that the estate be sold and divided into
nine shares and distributed among her children.
MARRIAGE ELICRNsKs.-Martagel licenses have been
issued by the clerk OF the court TO +. r: Harding
and Mabel g. Kaemmerer; w. A. Lee, OF Fre6er-
icksbIrg Va, and Ellen Kelly, OF Alexandria, va.
w. L. Dunham and Irene a. Hall: VIM. OetZel and
Emma L. NllIe: James L Turton, tr., and Annie
'. crown; Abe buchanan ana Celia Thomas.
The French chamber OF deputies has passed the
experimental mobilization bin by vote Of 500 to
1l& Gen. Ferron, minister OF war, In advocating
it, explained that 1t provided for the mobiliza
t1On OF only 10000 men.
Hunt McCumm0ns was run over and killed yes
terday by railroad train near Rising Sun, Cecil
CO., Nd.
ElktoD, and was committed for attempted Ielo-
nious assault on MIA 6iiverberE.